Skirt for oil and gas separators



July 15, 1930. L. M. HACKETT SKIRT FOR OIL AND GAS SEPARATORS 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. 17, 1927 ATTORNEY July 15, 1930. L. M. HACKETT SKIRT FOR OIL AND GAS SEPARATORS 2 Shsets-Sheet 2 I V TO 4 28,: BY ATTORNEY Filed Aug. 17, 1927 Patented July 15, 193i) UNITED STATES LEWIS M. HACKETT,

COMPANY, OF OKLAHOMA CITY,

PATENT OFFICE Application filed August 17, 1927. Serial No. 213,493.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in skirts for oil and gas separators.

One object of the invention is to provide a separating skirt for mounting in the tank of a separator and equipped with a of spaced openings having deflectors over the segregated.

A further object of the invention is to provide a skirt having spaced inlet A construction designed to carry out the invention will be hereinafter described, together with other features of the invention.

he invention will be more readily underfrom a reading of the following specification and by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which an example of the invention 1s shown and wherein:

1g. 1 is a sectional view of the upperporseparator equipped in accordance with tion of an oil and gas with a skirt constructed the invention,

Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross-sectional view taken on the line 2- 2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a detail of one of the deflectors, and

brackets 19. The skirt In the upper portion of the th surrounding in diameter than 20 provided with said space.

The principal feature of the skirt resides in a plurality of spaced openin s 22 equipped with deflectors 23. Each de ector is preferthe tank, which has inlets deflector boxes 21 located in ably formed in stamping out the metal from t e circular opening 22 to form the deflector is best shown in Fig. 4.

The deflector boxes 21 onlyand, as is shown in are open at one end Fig. 2, the lnfluent directed in a counter-clockwise dlrection. he shanks 25 are his causes the influent to pass aroundthe shanks and under will be ObVlOllS that such an action will retard the flow of the influent sufliciently to prevent t e heavier back-pressure, as a ready means of escape is thus provided for the more volatile fluids. It will be understood that the influent after entering the openings 22 will flow up through the openings 17 of thebaflie 16 and through e upper portion of the tank.

t is to be expressly understood that the invention resides in the skirt and the baiiles and other portions of the separator are shown an illustration,because the skirt co-pending application Serial No. 213,492.

Various changes in the size and shape of the difierent parts, as well as modlficatlons the plates in and alterations, may be made Within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim, is: 1. In an oil and gas separator, a tank, a 5 vertical cylindrical skirt mounted in the tank and spaced therefrom, an apertured baffle closing the upper end of the skirt, inlets for the tank having means for directing an influent circumferentially of said space, an deflectors upon the outer periphery of said skirt overhanging openings therein extending in continuous series downward from the i baffle to the lower end and disposed in the direction of the flow of said influent. 2. A skirt for an oil and gas separator comprising a cylindrical body open at its lower end and closed at its top by an apertured battle and having portions upset therefrom at the outer periphery of the body to form openings and deflectors, said deflectors being connected with the edges of the openings by shanks at an angle to the body and including plates bent at an angle to the shanks and extending circumferentially of the outer periphcry of the body in the direction of the flow of an influent.

in testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LEWIS M. HACKETT. 

